Watchung: Budget passes, two newcomers join BOE

WATCHUNG – Two new members will be joining the Watchung Board of Education following tonight’s voting.

Newcomers Ellyn Margulies and Tina Kelly will be joining incumbent Kathleen Caldas who won her third term on the board. The fourth candidate, Georgia Glasser-Nehls lost to Caldas by just six votes in a 366 to 360 vote.

The district’s budget was passed in a 407 to 264 vote. Seventeen percent of the district’s registered voters came out to vote.